Matanuska Electric Association
Palmer, AK · EIN 27-2680085. Reported 51 grants totalling $478,665 to 44 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Matanuska Electric Association, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 15% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,265 and $10,000; the smallest was $6,414 and the largest $17,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Valley Hospital Association Inc | Wasilla, AK | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hatcher Alpine Xperience | Palmer, AK | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 995 the Pass Peoples Paper | Wasilla, AK | $19,361 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Alaska | Anchorage, AK | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Childrens Place | Wasilla, AK | $18,633 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center Inc | Palmer, AK | $17,559 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Curry Ridge Riders Inc | Trapper Creek, AK | $16,471 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Denali Family Services | Anchorage, AK | $14,415 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alaska State Fair Incorporated | Palmer, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alaskas Healing Hearts | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs | Chugiak, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Battle Dawgs | Willow, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beacon Hill | Anchorage, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Birchwood Camp of the Alaska United Methodist Conference Inc | Chugiak, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Anchorage, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ccs Early Learning | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chugiak Dog Mushers Association | Chugiak, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company Inc | Chugiak, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Eagle River Nature Center Inc | Eagle River, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Land Trust Inc | Anchorage, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heartreach Center Inc | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Last Frontier Honor Flight Inc | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mat-Su Arctic Winter Games | Palmer, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mat-Su Youth Court | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palmer Arts Council | Palmer, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Set Free Alaska | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Denali Nordic Ski Club Inc | Talkeetna, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Valley Community for Recycling Solutions | Wasilla, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Love Inc of Eagle River | Eagle River, AK | $8,760 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Access Alaska Inc | Anchorage, AK | $8,540 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palmer Museum of History and Art | Palmer, AK | $8,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska | Anchorage, AK | $8,265 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alaska Peace Officers Association | Anchorage, AK | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Matsu Ski Club | Palmer, AK | $7,973 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palmer Volunteer Firemens Association | Palmer, AK | $7,785 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mat Su Youth Housing | Wasilla, AK | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Engine 557 Restoration Company | Wasilla, AK | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kids Kupboard | Wasilla, AK | $6,960 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Charities Inc | Wasilla, AK | $6,763 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Legion | Wasilla, AK | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Palmer, AK | $6,666 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Me-2-We Inc | Palmer, AK | $6,414 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
7 of 44 (16%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Connect Mat-Su
Bridge the Gap Funding - individual - Denali Family Services
Lighting Upgrades, Valley Office - Alaska State Fair Inc
Historical Site Park Project - Friends of Eagle River Nature
Korohusk Public Use Cabin Construct - Great Land Trust
Settlers Bay Coastal Park Expansion - Mat-Su Youth Court
Continued Legal Education
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16 | $149,632 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 17 | $170,763 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 18 | $158,270 | $9,930 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Alaska. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alaska.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Matanuska Electric Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2929, Palmer, AK, 99645.
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